Inspirational Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley (American Mormon Religious Leader)

Inspirational Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley (American Mormon Religious Leader)

Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Goals

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you—don’t do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don’t do it. Don’t you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don’t touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Choice

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Discipline

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Humanity

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Attitude

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Self Respect

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord; then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Gratitude is a sign of maturity… Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Gambling

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Attitude

It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters?
—Gordon B. Hinckley

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living… Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Living Well

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that’s all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Virtue

There is nothing in all the world so satisfying as a task well done. There is no reward so pleasing as that which comes with the mastery of a difficult problem.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Performance

You will come to know that what appears today is to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Now, Will, Great

The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others…. The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Try a little harder to be a little better.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

5 most important words – I am proud of you.
4 most important words – What do you think?
3 most important words – If you please.
2 most important words – Thank you.
1 most important word – Love.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of government from the backs of the people and keep this nation, under God, a citadel of freedom standing as an example to all the world.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Topics: Government

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